One of the final messages from the five-person crew of the Titan submersible before it imploded, killing all inside, was \u201call good here\u201d, a hearing has revealed.
\nInvestigators with the US Coast Guard said the message was among the final communications between the Titan and its mother ship, before they lost contact for good.
\nAlso shown at the hearing for the first time was an image, taken by a remotely operated vehicle, of Titan\u2019s tail cone sitting on the sea floor following the implosion.
\nThe deep-sea vessel was less than two hours into its descent towards the wreck of the Titanic when it imploded in June 2023.
\nTony Nissen, the company\u2019s former engineering director, said the evidence he had seen was \u201cdisturbing\u2026 professionally and personally\u201d.
\nMr Nissen claimed that Stockton Rush, OceanGate\u2019s late CEO who was on board Titan, had the last word on most engineering decisions and was difficult to work with.
\n\u201cStockton would fight for what he wanted and, even if it changed from day to day, he wouldn\u2019t give an inch,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cMost people would eventually back down to Stockton, it was death by a thousand cuts.\u201d
\nOceanGate suspended all exploration and commercial operations following the incident.
\nThe company currently has no full-time staff but will be represented by a lawyer at the inquiry, it said.
\nMonday saw the start of the first public phase of an already 15-month investigation.
\nUnanswered questions over the Titan\u2019s ill-fated dive have fuelled a lingering debate over safety and the regulation of private undersea exploration.
\nThe Coast Guard\u2019s Marine Board of Investigations (MBI) is expected to hear from as many as 10 former OceanGate employees, including co-founder Guillermo Sohnlein, and experts in marine safety and undersea exploration.
\nAn MBI is the highest available level of inquiry into US marine casualties and convenes roughly one hearing per year, its chairman said on Sunday.
\n\u201cOut of thousands of investigations conducted, less than one rise to this level,\u201d Jason Neubauer said.
\n\u201cWe hope that this hearing will help shed light on the cause of the tragedy and prevent anything like this from happening again.\u201d
\nThe board of top Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials has the authority to recommend civil penalties or make referrals for criminal prosecution to the US Department of Justice.
\nA search mission involving four governments unfolded after the submersible lost contact with its mother ship, the Polar Prince, on the morning of 18 June 2023 and never resurfaced.
\nAs well as Rush, on board were British explorer Hamish Harding, veteran French diver Paul Henri Nargeolet, the British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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